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As growth in the global technology industry slows, European companies have been hobbled by weak valuations. As a result, cash-rich U.S. acquirers are swallowing up their European counterparts, outspending European buyers by almost 2 to 1 in the region. U.S. buyers have spent $42 billion on acquisitions of Europe's technology companies since 2009, led by Hewlett-Packard's $10.3 billion takeover of U.K. data-analysis firm Autonomy Corp. last year, compared with $27 billion in deals by European buyers. As we move into the age of webscale and cloud computing, the traditional data center architecture is blowing apart, according to executives of startups that have built new kinds of disruptive data center gear and software at the Structure 2012 conference on Wednesday in San Francisco. crowdfunding jewel is fool’s gold, and is inherently incapable of harnessing “people-to-people power” and the “wisdom of crowds” to “democratize access to capital for entrepreneurs” in order to “create wealth and make things happen,” as crowdfunding sites publicly proclaim if there are universities, venture capitalists, an incubator or two, as well as some government funding, voila, there is an entrepreneurship ecosystem designing one is an engineering task The methodology, which we have been developing, is a set of processes for meaningful engagement of all of the relevant stakeholders, and the facilitation and acceleration of the self-organizing process. A number of remarkable technologies are converging: clever software, novel materials, more dexterous robots, new processes (notably three-dimensional printing) and a whole range of web-based services.